Monday, July 17, 2006
Robbers’ weekend loot: P.5M
MORE than half a million in cash was lost to robbers in Cebu over the weekend.
Three motorcycle-riding men robbed a cargo truck’s cashier of P100,000 in Medellin town while a town mayor’s mother lost P400,000 cash to burglars in Sibonga.
An Indian national and his wife also lost P2,000 and their cellular phone to highway robbers in Liloan town.
In Sibonga, Melie Hong Ponce, mother of Mayor Nestor Ponce, discovered yesterday morning that her cash vault containing P400,000 cash was forced open.
Police, in their investigation, learned that the burglar stayed behind the night before until the store closed and waited until the owner left.
The perpetrator reportedly hid in the store’s bodega and entered the store through the comfort room, which led to the store.
The burglar detached the jalousie blades of the comfort room’s window.
According to PO3 Ramuel Banugon of the Sibonga Police Station, burglars also stole about the same amount from the same store last year.
Latent fingerprints were lifted from the store yesterday.
Police have their eye on some personalities in the town.
However, Banugon said they have yet to gather more evidence before they can point to any of them as the culprits.
In Barangay Panugnawan, Medellin, three motorcycle-riding men ran off with P100,000 cash from employees of a peddler’s truck.
Cashier Ivy Gallario Canales, 20, had just disembarked from the truck to collect money from Loreto Store when two men approached her and pointed a gun at her.
One of them grabbed her bag while the other one fired the gun to scare her and her three co-employees.
The truck, owned by Ronald Te, was full of canned goods.
Daanbantayan
Canales, along with helpers Briccio Rondena, 24, Fredgie Gomera, 26, and driver Joel Condos, 27, were on their way back to Daanbantayan after a day of peddling.
The Isuzu cargo truck was almost empty, as Saturday is their busiest day.
When they reached Sitio Colo, they noticed a motorcycle with three men onboard overtake their truck.
None of them bothered to conceal their faces.
After they grabbed Canales’ bag, they fled south.
SPO1 Manuel Allan Tan of the Medellin Police Station said they have witnesses who have pointed to a man who hails from Daanbantayan town as one of the culprits.
Tan said the man had a reputation for stealing even from his employers.
Tan assured that his colleagues are conducting operations for the arrest of the robbers.
In Sitio Bahak, Barangay Poblacion, Liloan, Jit Charn Singh, 27, and Charmaine Ponce Singh, 20, were onboard their motorcycle when two men on another bike held them up at 1:30 p.m. Friday.
The two men, whose faces were covered by helmets, were on a Honda TMX motorcycle bearing plate number MC 1075.
When police checked, the motorcycle was registered in Ozamis City.
The two men took the couple’s cellular phone and P2,000 cash, which they collected from clients who loaned money from them. (MEA)
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